Please note that I am no longer working at the University of Amsterdam and have taken up a new position as Professor of Social Philosophy at the Free University in Berlin. Please make sure to contact me at robin.celikates@fu-berlin.de from now on.

I was Associate Professor of Political and Social Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam 2010-19 and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton 2018-19. I am also an associated member of the Institut für Sozialforschung (Institute for Social Research) in Frankfurt am Main, where I taught political philosophy before coming to Amsterdam, and a Program Leader at the Amsterdam Center for Globalization Studies.

Currently I direct the NWO-funded 5-year research project "Transformations of Civil Disobedience".
My main areas of specialization are: critical theory, civil disobedience, democracy, collective action, recognition, migration and citizenship, and methodological questions in political and social philosophy. Other areas of interest include the philosophy of the social sciences, moral philosophy, Rousseau, and social and political theory.
I am a book review editor of the Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, a member of the editorial collectives of the journals Krisis and Polar, an editorial associate of Constellations, and a regular contributor to Cargo and Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
I was a visiting scholar in the Philosophy Department at Columbia University in New York (January to July 2016) and visiting professor in the Philosophy Department and the research group Sophiapol at Université Paris Nanterre (January to May 2017).
For a short CV and a list of publications, please click on the tabs "CV" and "Publications" above.

Autonomie und Heteronomie des Politischen (Autonomy and Heteronomy of the Political), transcript: 2004 (co-edited as a member of the Frankfurter Arbeitskreis für Politische Theorie und Philosophie).

Articles and Book Chapters

“Critical Theory, Social Struggles, and the Role of the Public Intellectual”, in: Axel Honneth/Peter Gordon/Espen Hammer (eds.): The Routledge Companion to the Frankfurt School, London: Routledge 2018 (in print).

“Forms of Life, Progress, and Social Struggle”, in: Amy Allen/Eduardo Mendieta (eds.): From Alienation to Forms of Life, University Park: Penn State University Press 2018 (in print).

"Civil Disobedience as a Practice of Civic Freedom", in: David Owen (ed.): On Global Citizenship. James Tully in Dialogue, Bloomsbury Press 2014.

"Freedom as Non-Arbitrariness or as Democratic Self-Rule? A Critique of Contemporary Republicanism", in: Christopher Prendergast et al. (eds.): To Be Unfree. Republican Perspectives on Political Unfreedom in History, Literature and Philosophy, Transcript 2014.

"From Critical Social Theory to a Social Theory of Critique. On the Critique of Ideology after the Pragmatic Turn", in: Constellations. An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, 13 (2006), 21-40.

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